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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifica...

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

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PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or...

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

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POVERTY, n. A file provided fo...

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to...

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

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INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who vent...

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

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BEG, v. To ask for something w...

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

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LEGACY, n. A gift from one who...

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

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HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Prote...

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

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AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizin...

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

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YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of y...

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

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Optimist Ђ' A proponent of the...

Optimist Ђ' A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

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Electricity is the power that ...

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

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I think love is the most unbel...

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

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TRUCE, n. Friendship....

TRUCE, n. Friendship.

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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the m...

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

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BEGGAR, n. One who has relied ...

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

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ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment in...

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

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KISS, n. A word invented by th...

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for 'bliss.' It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

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Conversation, n.: A vocal comp...

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thu...

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....